Jeremy Corbyn Sacks Hilary Benn After Coup Plot Revealed

Benn was sacked in the early hours of Sunday morning after the Observer newspaper revealed that the shadow foreign secretary was organising a coup against Mr Corbyn.

“It is understood that Benn had called fellow MPs over the weekend to suggest that he would ask Corbyn to stand down if there was significant support for a move against him,” the Observer said “He had also asked shadow cabinet colleagues to join him in resigning if Corbyn ignored that request.”

There are reports that half of Corbyn’s cabinet will resign in protest, while the Labour leader says he will resist any coup.

Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show on Sunday, Benn reiterated his stance that Corbyn is “not a leader,” and should resign.

“He is a good and decent man but he is not a leader,” Benn said, though he ruled out making any bid to become head of the party himself.

Members of the shadow cabinet have not reacted well to the sacking of Benn, who was shadow foreign minister. Media reports in the UK say that around half the members of his cabinet are expected to resign in protest.

One of the first to do so was Labour’s health policy chief, Heidi Alexander, who announced she was quitting the shadow cabinet in a letter she posted on Twitter.

“As much as I respect you as a man of principle, I do not believe you have the capacity to shape the answers our country is demanding and I believe that if we are to form the next Government, a change of leadership is essential,” she said.

Gloria De Piero, the shadow minister for Youth Policy was the next to announce she was stepping aside.

Corbyn is remaining defiant, with his office offering the following statement.

“There will be no resignation of a democratically elected leader with a strong mandate from the membership.”

John McDonnell, Labour’s finance spokesman and a Corbyn ally, urged the party to unify behind its leader, saying now was not the time for leadership challenges.

“I know how disappointed people are about the loss of the European referendum, but now is the time we hold together,” he said.

Diane Abbott, another staunch Corbyn supporter, hit out at Benn saying it was wrong to blame the Labour leader for the Leave campaign winning.

“As it happens, 60% of the Labour vote have come out to vote for remain. If Cameron had got a similar proportion of Tory voters, we would have won the referendum,” she said, as cited by the Guardian.

No leader would ever support the selling out of their national sovereignty to a foreign elite. End of fucking story.

Corbyn is now a pro-EU MP in a country that has voted otherwise, despite all the terrorizing and fear mongering of the media and establishment players. He needs to be replaced. As do all the pro-EU MPs. What use are people who still support a failing, bankrupt, unaccountable and unelected institution? Let those who can envision an independent future lead the country in the direction willed by the majority and all the ever shrinking but vocal minority who want a bunch of bankster owned foreign technocrats to rule them like slaves should go stand in a corner and have a quiet word with their self.

The laws, taxes, defence, fiscal, economic and immigration policies of the British Isles should be determined by the British people, as they should for all seperate nations of the world.